How do you make a ray diagram for a telescope, that has a diverging lens in it?
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I have to make a telescope and it has a diverging lens as the eye piece, and a really big converging lens as the objective lens. But i don’t get how to make the ray diagrams, please help!
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I have to make a telescope and it has a diverging lens as the eye piece, and a really big converging lens as the objective lens. But i don’t get how to make the ray diagrams, please help!
June 2nd, 2010 at 10:36 am
Like B) in here:
And here for how it works: ronwizfr
June 5th, 2010 at 3:30 pm
The type of telescope having a convex objective lens and a concave eye lens is called a Galilean telescope, though Galileo didn’t invent them. Hans Lippershey invented them, in Holland.
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Here is a site explaining how to make ray diagrams for diverging lenses. . . . . . . . . jonal